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[15:29:28 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but it never went anywhere
[15:33:39 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> if I had this I could hit ANY rest api... not just ones I had made interfaces for
[15:33:40 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so designing a whole new API, implementation and way to provide it as a portal context attribute?
[15:33:42 CDT(-0500)] <athena> it sort of seems like most of the planning is already there? you'd just need to implement the steps eric already laid out
[15:33:46 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> right
[15:34:00 CDT(-0500)] <athena> yes, you could hit any of the existing rest services
[15:34:08 CDT(-0500)] <athena> plus quickly attach to new ones you created
[15:34:14 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> yeah I was picturing a "whole new API" of 1 interface, maybe 2 methods 
[15:34:14 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> this already exists: https://github.com/Jasig/portlet-utils
[15:34:15 CDT(-0500)] <athena> so if you needed a new service you could jsut add it to uportal and go
[15:34:33 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> yes but it needs to be a well thought out API
[15:34:36 CDT(-0500)] <athena> so we just need a small library that's a submodule of portlet-utils
[15:34:38 CDT(-0500)] <athena> yes, it does
[15:38:06 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> this is about getting all oars in the same boat, rowing the same way
[15:38:47 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> right
[15:39:00 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so I thinkt he least effort is the rest api proxy code
[15:44:33 CDT(-0500)] <athena> also i think there's a really interesting use case for leveraging the uportal permissions framework for portlet use
[15:44:46 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> yes, totally
[15:44:59 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> need discoverable groups & so forth
[15:45:12 CDT(-0500)] <athena> could even create custom permissions
[15:45:12 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> isUserInRole only goes so far 
[15:45:14 CDT(-0500)] <athena> yes.
[15:45:25 CDT(-0500)] <athena> things like the announcement portlet feed permissions could really use uportal permissions
[15:45:30 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> so one thing we'll have to look into is overhead
[15:45:33 CDT(-0500)] <athena> would take some dev to get to that point, but i's possible
[16:16:53 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> one more question EricDalquist – calling the rest api from a servlet (not portlet) not a problem, correct?
[16:17:28 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> using the request dispatcher approach?
[16:19:00 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> yeah
[16:19:13 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> right
[16:19:18 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> fewer steps even
[16:19:18 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> that isn't a problem
[16:19:21 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> right
[16:19:26 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> it is the same as the portlet
[16:19:29 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> just one less step
[16:19:50 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> whereas the java api/portal context approach could require extra finessing
[16:21:38 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> right
[16:21:44 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> since the servlet has no context from the portal]
[16:47:09 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> can you stuff GET/POST/PUT/DELETE into a requestDispatcher?
[16:47:38 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> if you fake ity
[16:47:48 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> with a custom HttpServletRequestWrapper
[16:49:57 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but doable
[16:55:15 CDT(-0500)] Wiki Markup <drewwills> so... any fancy Spring class to turn "/some/url/{p1}?foo={p2}" into "/some/url/with?foo={bar}" given \[ p1:with, p2:bar \]?
[16:55:41 CDT(-0500)] <athena> could take a look at the rest template source code
[16:55:47 CDT(-0500)] <athena> see if that's actually using another library
[16:58:48 CDT(-0500)] <athena> yeah
[16:58:54 CDT(-0500)] <athena> using an internal spring lib - UriTemplate
[17:10:40 CDT(-0500)] <athena> yes, i think we should use normal URL parameter behavior
[17:17:30 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> sounds lovely... I thought I had seen that the getPeople() method expected differently, but I mis-remembered
[18:36:54 CDT(-0500)] <peterjhart> Here is a mockup of what a Fragment Manager UI could look like: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/uPortal+4+DLM+Fragment+Manager+Interface